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Key Skills

R, Stata
Python
SQL
Data Visualization
Data Mining
GIS Analysis
Regression Analysis
Bayesian Modeling
Machine Learning

Proficient Packages

scikit-learn | matplotlib | numpy | pandas | tidyverse | tidycensus | tidytext | ggplot2 | srvyr | haven | tigris | stringr | quanteda | rvest | shiny & and more

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Sunny Shao

Education

PhD. Candidate, Political Science

University of California

Riverside, CA

current - 2016

  • MASS BEHAVIOR & COMPUTATIONAL SOCIAL SCIENCE
  • Dissertation: How Mainstream Media Shapes Political Sentiment on WeChat? Understanding Political Moblization Through Social Media Discourse

Applied Machine Learning Workshop

Rstudio

San Francisco, CA

2020

M.S., Public Policy (Econometrics)

Pepperdine University

Malibu, CA

2015 - 2013

Selected Experience

Associate Researcher

Center for Social Innovation (UCR)

Riverside, CA

current - 2018

  • Effectively communicate technical concepts and findings to non-technical audiences such funders, journalists and government agencies
  • Independently query, analyze, and visualize both structured and unstructured datasets (with R and python) to measure social disparity and impacts for clients’ grant application or annual reports.
  • Design and deploy interactive data visualization tools using R, shiny, ArcGIS, and AWS for government agencies and organizations that help them to strategize their projects or resource allocations.

Lead Researcher

AAPI Data

Riverside, CA

current - 2017

  • Classify voter file data using surname and geography match algorithms to assign survey experiments
  • Program, analyze, and visualize the largest Asian American Survey projects (2018 National Asian American Survey and 2018-2020 National Asian American Voter Survey)
  • Proficient in various data manipulation, survey weight raking, visualization, and GIS analysis packages in R and Python

Summer Fellow (Survey Data Operation)

Education Pioneer

Los Angeles, CA

2016

  • Worked closely with coordinators, principals and teachers on program evaluations
  • Created stratified weighted sampling surveys to evaluate programs of Camino Nuevo charter school network
  • Designed protocols and methodology for future program evaluations

Data Analyst Intern

SmartAnalyst

Gurgaon, India

2012

  • Interviewed thoracic oncologists in Japan and China for pharmaceutical clients, who are on phase II trials of non-small cell lung cancer drugs
  • Translated three-way phone meetings between client, SmartAnalyst and Chinese thoracic oncologists
  • Crowdsourced a list of thoracic oncologists through medical journals

Selected Projects

Geographic Profiles, Racial Data

R, ShinyApps, AWS

N/A

current - 2020

Asian American Voter Survey (Experimental Design & Name-match algorithms)

AAPI Data, APIAVote & AAAJC

N/A

2020 - 2018

Experiment on Inland Empire Census 2020 Outreach Messages by Census Tracts

Center for Social Innovation, UC Riverside

Riverside, CA

2020

National Asian American Survey

AAPI Data

N/A

2018

QuickStats Tool

Rmarkdown

N/A

2017

Selected Reports

Washing State Factsheet

Washington Conmission on Asian American Affairs

N/A

2018

Selected Press

Who are the Chinese Americans voting for Trump

The Spectator UK

London, UK

2020

Invited Talk

2020 Census and Beyond: New Tool for AAPI Census Efforts

Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy

Virtual

2019

Resources for Engaging in the Debate Over Data Disaggregation

Association of Asian American Studies

San Francisco, CA

2018

Perceived Discrimination and Political Socialization of New Americans

Midwestern Political Science Association

Chicago, IL

2017